Kluwer Journal of Automated Software Engineering
Special Issue on Software Engineering for Mobility
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Call for papers
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The integration between computing and communication represents one of the most
important technological developments of the last decade, a phenomenon marked
by significant economic and social changes centered mostly on the Internet.
The goal of this special issue is to examine the next major wave of
technological changes in the computing environment, the integration of
computing, communication, and mobility. In its broadest sense, mobility
involves the migration of computing components through some logical or
physical space. Physical components provide the platform for applications
designed to cope with changes in physical location and connectivity to both
wired and wireless networks. Physical components can assume a large diversity
of forms including sensors, personal digital assistants, laptops, and large
computing platforms residing on vehicles including cars, ships, or airplanes.
Movement may happen across geographical regions or in the confines of a single
building. Applications executing on such platforms may act in isolation, may
coordinate with components in close proximity, or may access resources on a
fixed network. Mobile components can also come in the shape of logical units
such as code fragments or active programs. The latter carry both code and
execution state among fixed and mobile hosts, exploiting locality of resources
and computation. A feature typical of all mobile environments is the need to
adapt to a constantly changing context that is affected by variability of
network characteristics, changes in the availability of resources, and
heterogeneity among participating platforms. For these and other reasons,
mobility is associated with increases in the complexity of the software
development process. New software engineering techniques are needed to
address the challenges posed by the development of software for physical and
logical mobile environments.
This special issue is intended to highlight new research that advances the
understanding of critical issues in mobility and proposes viable solutions for
the software engineering of systems that involve mobility in all its
forms. Submissions are not restricted in any way. Topics of special interest
include middleware tailored to mobility, tools to aid in the design of mobile
systems, models that capture fundamental properties of mobility and enable
formal reasoning about mobile systems, coordination techniques which address
adaptability and security, and algorithms that solve fundamental problems in
mobility.
Submission guidelines
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Authors are invited to submit an electronic version of their contribution in
PostScript or PDF to [log in to unmask], using ASE2001 in the subject
line. Submissions must be received by January 5, 2001. Manuscripts must be in
English, single-spaced, 12 point font size, and 15 pages maximum. In addition
to the electronic version of the paper, the email submission should include a
text-only version of the title, author(s) name and affiliation, abstract, and
the name and address (both postal and electronic) for the contact author.
Papers submitted for consideration by the special issue must represent
original unpublished work. No version of the paper may be submitted
concurrently to any other journal or conference. Any manuscript failing to
meet this condition will be rejected outright.
Important dates
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Publication of the special issue is expected in 2001.
January 5, 2001 Submission Deadline
March 23, 2001 First round review notification
May 18, 2001 Re-submission revised papers
July 13, 2001 Second round review notification
September 7, 2001 Submission of final revisions
Editors of the special issue
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Gruia-Catalin Roman Amy L. Murphy
Department of Computer Science Department of Computer Science
Washington University University of Rochester
Campus Box 1045 P.O. Box 270226
Saint Louis, MO 63130 USA Rochester, NY 14627 USA
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Kluwer Journal of Automated Software Engineering (JASE)
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JASE is an archival, peer-reviewed journal publishing research,
tutorial papers, survey and accounts of significant industrial experience in
the foundations, techniques, tools and applications of automated software
engineering technology. This includes the study of techniques for
constructing, understanding, adapting, and modeling software artifacts and
processes. Both automatic systems and collaborative systems are within the
scope of the journal, as are computational models of human software
engineering activities. Knowledge representations and artificial intelligence
techniques applicable to automated software engineering are of interest, as
are formal techniques that support or provide theoretical foundations.
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